Bud Colligan
Partner @ Accel
San Francisco, United States
Bud Colligan is a Series A investor at Accel in San Francisco focused on Video and Mobile. Bud Colligan is the founder and CEO of South Swell Ventures, Member Board Of Directors at Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay and an Investor as well as advisor of Wheelhouse. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Georgetown University.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Bud Colligan invests in
Stages Bud Colligan invests in
Countries Bud Colligan invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $17M–$103M
- Series B
- $16M–$186M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Video 2 (25%)
- Mobile 2 (25%)
- iOS 1 (13%)
- LGBT 1 (13%)
- EdTech 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (25%)
- Series B 2 (25%)
- Seed 1 (13%)
- Angel 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Lynda, an online learning platform, offers educational training courses in the fields of business, software, technology, and creative skills. It offers courses in the areas of 3D/animation, audio/music, business, CAD, design, developer, education and e-learning, photography, information technology, marketing, video, and web to individual,corporate, nonprofit, government, library, higher education, and K-12 subscribers through its instructional video tutorials. Lynda provides a basic and premium membership and German, French, and Spanish-language content for its courses. It offers its courses through mobile applications and individual memberships. Lynda's enterprise members include Fortune 500 companies, advertising agencies, media companies, U.S. colleges and universities, state governments, and various branches of the U.S. military, business customers that include corporate and nonprofit clients, and academic customers that include K-12 and higher education, and U.S. House of Representatives, NASA-JPL, CIA, FAA, USPS, and the executive office of the President of the United States, and cabinet-level departments that include the Department of Defense and State Department. Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman founded it in 1995. Lynda has its headquarters in Carpinteria in California with satellite offices throughout in the United States, United Kingdom, Austria, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of LinkedIn Corporation. | $186M / Series B / Jan 14, 2015 | ||
| Lynda, an online learning platform, offers educational training courses in the fields of business, software, technology, and creative skills. It offers courses in the areas of 3D/animation, audio/music, business, CAD, design, developer, education and e-learning, photography, information technology, marketing, video, and web to individual,corporate, nonprofit, government, library, higher education, and K-12 subscribers through its instructional video tutorials. Lynda provides a basic and premium membership and German, French, and Spanish-language content for its courses. It offers its courses through mobile applications and individual memberships. Lynda's enterprise members include Fortune 500 companies, advertising agencies, media companies, U.S. colleges and universities, state governments, and various branches of the U.S. military, business customers that include corporate and nonprofit clients, and academic customers that include K-12 and higher education, and U.S. House of Representatives, NASA-JPL, CIA, FAA, USPS, and the executive office of the President of the United States, and cabinet-level departments that include the Department of Defense and State Department. Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman founded it in 1995. Lynda has its headquarters in Carpinteria in California with satellite offices throughout in the United States, United Kingdom, Austria, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of LinkedIn Corporation. | $103M / Series A / Jan 16, 2013 | ||
| Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that aims to make online banking more profitable. Yodlee's personal financial management, payments, and customer acquisition solutions unify all personal financial account information to deliver centralized way for users to manage their financial tasks. | $35M / Jun 04, 2008 | ||
| Flowgram is a way to share Web pages, photos, and videos in a browser-based player that acts like an interactive screencast. The company is headed by Abhay Parekh, the co-founder of FastForward Networks (which was sold to Inktomi for $1.3 billion in 2000) and an ex-Accel Venture Partner. | $1.3M / Seed / Jan 31, 2008 | ||
| Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that aims to make online banking more profitable. Yodlee's personal financial management, payments, and customer acquisition solutions unify all personal financial account information to deliver centralized way for users to manage their financial tasks. | $6M / Jun 29, 2006 | ||
| Days of Wonder develops and publishes games that Play different™. These games include: Ticket to Ride®, the world’s best-selling train game; Small World™, the legendary fantasy game of epic conquests; and Memoir ’44®, the World War II saga with 20 expansions to its credit. Days of Wonder board games are distributed in 30 countries, with digitalversions available on the iOS App Store, on Steam, as well as on Days of Wonder’s web site: www.daysofwonder.com | $600K / Angel / Jan 01, 2003 | ||
| Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that aims to make online banking more profitable. Yodlee's personal financial management, payments, and customer acquisition solutions unify all personal financial account information to deliver centralized way for users to manage their financial tasks. | $17M / Series A / Oct 27, 1999 | ||
| PlanetOut, Inc. is a leading global online media company serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered, or LGBT, community, a market with reported buying power of approximately $485 billion annually in the United States alone. Their network of websites, including their flagship websites Gay.com and PlanetOut allows their members, or thosevisitors who registered on their websites by providing them with a name, e-mail address and other personal data, to connect with other members of the LGBT community around the world. According to Nielsen NetRatings, in June 2004, Gay.com ranked second in terms of average time online per person and sixteenth in terms of visits per person among all websites measured. They generate most of their revenue from subscription fees for premium membership services that they offer in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish to their members who identify themselves as residing in more than 100 countries. They also generate revenue from online advertising and e-commerce targeted to the LGBT community. | $16.4M / Series B / Sep 28, 1999 |
Co-Investors
About Accel
Accel invests in sectors such as enterprise software, consumer internet, financial technology, and cybersecurity. It participates in funding rounds ranging from seed and pre-seed stages to growth-stage capital. Beyond direct investment, the organization offers operational resources to assist founders with product development and talent recruitment.The firm connects entrepreneurs with a network of industry peers and mentors to facilitate market expansion.
Accel Contacts
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Amit Kumar
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Amy Saper
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Anand Daniel
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Andrei Brasoveanu
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FAQ
What does Bud Colligan invest in?
Bud Colligan invests primarily in Video, Mobile and iOS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Bud Colligan's check size?
Bud Colligan typically joins rounds of $17M–$103M at Series A and $16M–$186M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bud Colligan participates in.
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